BANG!
Colress heavily crashed to the ground, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
He looked at Axel in disbelief, his pair of triangular eyes filled with terror.
'What the hell is this thing?'
During the course of his research, he had already achieved huge breakthroughs, even managing to integrate Genesect's genes into his own body.
But now, he was actually sent flying by someone's single punch?
Not only that, but even several of his ribs were broken.
Axel also looked with some surprise at the golden tag lying in his backpack, falling into deep thought.
'This guy's drop rate is way too high, right?'
'I thought this was going to be a tough battle, but it turns out I just A-click you once and you drop loot?'
"I feel like this is a misunderstanding between us. How about I let you go today?"
"Heh heh, damn it!", Colress was so angered by Axel that he laughed.
'You hit me and now you want to leave?'
'Can't you see my Metagross?'
"Go, catch him back for me so I can study him properly!"
The instant Colress's words fell, a red light instantly flashed in Beheeyem's eyes.
Axel and Pheromosa, both quick in eyes and hands, almost simultaneously attacked Beheeyem.
Pheromosa's body turned into an afterimage, appearing above Beheeyem, and kicked at Beheeyem's eye socket.
Beheeyem, in the middle of performing Memory Manipulation, instantly lost balance and slammed toward the ground.
Axel flipped his hand, grabbed Beheeyem, dragged it to Colress's position, and yanked off Beheeyem's Poké Ball.
Before Beheeyem could react, it had already turned into a beam of white light and returned to the Poké Ball, which Axel held tightly in his hand.
Colress stared at Axel with clear, wide-open eyes, his mouth involuntarily gaping.
'Who taught you this kind of wild fighting style?'
Axel, moving as fast as lightning, shoved the Poké Ball into Colress's mouth.
"One down. Pheromosa, handle Klinklang. Gardevoir, restrain Metagross!"
Axel forcefully pressed Colress's head to the ground, giving him no chance to command.
Pheromosa nodded lightly, instantly completing Bond Evolution, and kicked Klinklang square on the head.
Klinklang immediately let out a sharp cry, clearly having taken extremely severe damage.
Probably because of a lack of resources, Colress's Pokémon had a huge power gap.
Klinklang and Beheeyem were both Level 60, but Metagross was a full Level 81.
Now Pheromosa had unlocked Bond Evolution, and her level was already approaching 50.
In both typing and physical ability, she completely crushed Klinklang.
"Pheromosa, you handle this Klinklang yourself. I'll team up with Gardevoir to deal with Metagross."
"Yoh~!"
Seeing Pheromosa nod, Axel quickly took out Ho-Oh's and Eternatus's Poké Balls from his waist.
Metagross's level was too high. With both Glastrier's and Rayquaza's Dragon Scales absent, even Gardevoir alone couldn't possibly overpower Metagross.
"roar!"
"ROAR!"
A rainbow light and a violent aura appeared in quick succession, Eternatus and Ho-Oh floating in midair.
"Ho-Oh, Sacred Fire!"
"Eternatus, Toxic!"
Eternatus possessed the [God of Poison] tag, essentially the ultimate version of the Corrosion ability.
Aside from other Legendary Pokémon, no one could be immune to its poison.
But Metagross didn't know that.
As a brainpower-overclocked supercomputer Pokémon, even without its trainer's orders, Metagross could instantly react in battle.
It decisively chose to dodge the fire that countered it and lunged toward the Toxic launched by Eternatus, intending to take out what it thought was the weakest of the three Pokémon first.
After all, it could usually ignore most Pokémon's poison.
But the instant it made contact with the Toxic, Metagross froze, a bit of white smoke puffing from its head from overthinking.
'What the hell? I am actually poisoned?'
While Metagross was stunned, Ho-Oh's Sacred Fire surged in and completely engulfed its body.
Axel seized the moment to have Eternatus and Gardevoir pull back temporarily.
"Eternatus, keep using Cosmic Power."
"Gardevoir, mega!"
As he spoke, Axel swung the Key Stone on his wrist.
Immediately, he felt all his essence, energy, and spirit pour into the Key Stone, turning into four dazzling beams of light that shone toward Gardevoir's neck.
The Mega Stone on Gardevoir's neck bloomed with pink light in sync, linking with the Mega Evolution light from Axel's Key Stone.
The next moment, five-colored radiance appeared on Gardevoir's body, the lights quickly pulsing and transforming into crystalline pink energy.
The silhouette wrapped inside rapidly changed.
Her once-drooping skirt flared into a puffy shape, and two white, mini-wing-like structures appeared by her ears.
Axel's body felt suddenly empty, and he nearly collapsed to the ground.
In the past, like many Pokémon fans, he'd wondered if it was possible to stack multiple power-enhancement systems at once.
But now it seemed… an ordinary person really couldn't do it.
Just two Mega Evolutions had nearly hollowed out Axel's body.
If it were an ordinary person, they'd probably have been completely drained by now.
After completing Mega Evolution, the fairy-type energy around Gardevoir clearly grew denser.
But Axel had no intention of making her the main attacker.
The reason was simple: Metagross's typing was Psychic + Steel, quadruple resisting Psychic and double resisting Fairy. He was essentially a hard counter to Gardevoir.
What Axel wanted was only for Gardevoir to have enough psychic power to keep Metagross restrained.
"Gardevoir, use Hypnosis on Metagross. No need for direct combat, just keep it busy."
After reminding Mega Gardevoir to stay safe, Axel turned to Eternatus.
"Eternatus, help Ho-Oh use Dynamax!"
"roar!"
Already having boosted its body multiple times, Eternatus let out a cute yet fierce roar and dove into the sea of fire created by Ho-Oh.
The next instant, a massive phoenix cry erupted from within the flames.
Ho-Oh, DYNAMAX!
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